Chapter 22 (1/2)
Translator: Exodus Tales
Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by Mianbao
Edited by RED
The nectar of frosty snow trees was definitely not cheap, and anybody could work as a miscellaneous assistant. Even if Teacher Duan Lan wanted Zhu Minglang to help with ten trivial tasks, it would be well within her right to!
However, he was curious as to why she didn’t request Baiqi’s help, since he was stronger, and asked for little Heiya instead?
After arriving at the pond under the Phoenix Falls, Zhu Minglang finally understood why Duan Lan had requested he bring little Heiya.
Seeing the stirring water under the waterfall, and the large rocks in the pond, Zhu Minglang fell into deep thought. For a moment, he didn’t know how he should communicate with his little crocodile spirit.
“Remember, Heiya, immediately swim away when they jump at you. Don’t ever get caught. Just leave the rest to Teacher Duan Lan’s flood dragon. Understand?” Zhu Minglang said seriously, holding the little crocodile spirit’s adorable head.
The little crocodile spirit showed a sulky face, even though he usually looked bitter normally.
He, who was originally sleeping peacefully in the backyard, never expected to suddenly become no more than bait.
He was a crocodile. A crocodile!
Who would use a crocodile as bait!?
“Don’t worry. That hundred-year-old water monster isn’t very strong, just that it has a very sensitive sense of smell. It will hide among the rocks at the bottom of the pond every time I summon my Deep River Dragon. It would be a piece of cake to kill it by using Mystic Arts, but doing so would hurt the other creatures in the pond,” Teacher Duan Lan told Zhu Minglang.
After training her Waterfall Flood Dragon under the waterfall for a long time, she had discovered the existence of a water monster that posed a great threat to the fishermen.
As a teacher of the Lichuan Dragon Tamers Academy, it was her duty to handle such matters, even if it wasn’t a commissioned task. Alas, that water demon understood the way of survival, only bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult to catch it…
A flood dragon was too big, making it difficult for it to search between the rocks at the bottom of the pond. When Duan Lan saw Zhu Minglang, she remembered he had a little crocodile spirit.
The crocodile spirit’s current level was just right, being weaker than the hundred-year-old water demon, and was within its standards for prey. Ordinary big fish weren’t enough to enter the eyes of this hundred-year-old water demon!
Now, Zhu Minglang finally understood.
Letting his crocodile spirit be bait for the hundred-year-old water demon was the real reward!
All creatures who had failed to dragonize would be called Demon Spirits when they reached a hundred years of age.
At a thousand years old, they were known as Devil Spirits.
As for those over ten thousand years old, they were referred to as Holy Spirits.
Even if these unique demons and devils had never crossed their Dragon Gate, there were many among them whose strength was above real dragons, especially Devil Spirits and Holy Spirits. Even some Dragon Lords and Dragon Monarchs would have to avoid them!
A hundred-year-old Demon Spirit wasn’t weak by any means. It was approximately at the level of the evolved Green Forest Dragon.
Letting Baiqi take it on was alright, but little Heiya was definitely not a match for it!
That was why Zhu Minglang had reminded little Heiya again and again to make a run for it immediately once it discovered the water monster among the large rocks at the bottom of the pond!
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The little crocodile spirit was very brave, jumping into the huge pond.
Due to not having made a soul contract with one another, Zhu Minglang was unable to sense the little crocodile spirit’s emotions and condition. Truth be told, he was worried.
However, considering that the little crocodile spirit ultimately needed to cross his Dragon Gate anyway, letting him experience this was a kind of trail. After all, when would it ever dragonize from just doing some training in the waters with no danger to speak of?
Due to the crashing waterfall, the surface of the pond was very rough. Zhu Minglang was unable to tell what was happening in the water at all.
The longer he waited, the more uneasy he felt. The strength of a soul bond with a dragon pet was truly too weak, and would only break after death. Although Zhu Minglang understood that every living creature would had to experience life and death trials for it to become possible to dragonize, and was aware that the risk was already very low with a powerful Master Dragon Tamer like Duan Lan around, he couldn’t help but feel worried.
Buruburuburu!!!
The water surface suddenly stirred violently. A black crocodile head slowly emerged, but it didn’t come out of the water completely, instead swimming around quickly under the water.
From the large rocks above the water, Zhu Minglang could clearly see the swimming black figure.
It was Heiya!
Before Zhu Minglang could heave a sigh of relief, rays of purplish-red electrical light suddenly shone from the stirring pond. The electrical rays were dense, slowly spreading out from a thick cloud of smoke under the water!
In the next second, a dark red monster shot out swiftly, chasing after the little crocodile spirit aggressively.
As the dark red monster moved, the electrical black smoke followed at its side. Many fish weren’t able to get away in time and had all turned up on their bellies, floating on the churning surface of the water. In just a short while, a whole spread of them were electrocuted.
The scene looked extremely harrowing!
The dark red monster wasn’t the slightest bit interested in those plump fish, however. The thick smoke with dark red electrical light was like a devil’s claw, grabbing at the little crocodile spirit’s tail.
“Teacher Duan Lan!” Zhu Minglang exclaimed urgently.
“They’re not under the waterfall yet,” Duan Lan replied calmly.